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International Human Rights

ISBN13: 9789065447258

ISBN: 9065447253

Published: June 1993

Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers

Format: Hardback

Price: Out of print

Comprises the texts of a selection of documents on international human rights. It includes coverage of the human rights protection by the UN, the Council of Europe and the European communities, as well as regional human rights protection outside Europe.

Contents:

Part 1 Human rights protection by the United Nations Organization: charter of the United Nations of June 26, 1945 (excerpts); declaration on principles of international law concerning friendly relations and co-operation among states in accordance with the charter of the United Nations of October 24, 1970; convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide of December 9, 1948; universal declaration of human rights of December 10, 1948; United Nations covenants on human rights; protection against discrimination; protection of refugees; protection against torture - convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of December 10, 1984; solidarity rights of the ""third generation"" - declaration on the right to development of December 4, 1986; rights of children - convention on the rights of the child of November 20, 1989; protection of ethnic minorities - declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities of December 18, 1992.

Part 2 Conference on security and co-operation in Europe (CSCE): final act of Helsinki of August 1, 1975 (excerpts); concluding document of the Madrid meeting of September 6, 1983 (excerpts); concluding document of the Vienna meeting of January 15, 1989 (excerpts); document of the Copenhagen meeting of the conference on the human dimension of the CSCE of June 29, 1990 (excerpts); charter of Paris for a new Europe of November 21, 1990; report of the CSCE meeting of experts on national minorities in Geneva of July 19, 1991 (excerpts); document of the Moscow meeting of the conference on the human dimension of the CSCE of October 3, 1991 (excerpts); Prague document on further development of CSCE institutions and structures of January 30, 1992; Helsinki document ""The Challenges of Change"" of July 10, 1992 (excerpts).

Part 3 Human rights protection by the Council of Europe: convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of November 4, 1950; protocols to the convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; protection of social rights; convention for the protection of individuals with regard to automatic processing of personal data of January 28, 1981; European convention for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of November 26, 1987.

Part 4 Human rights protection by the European communities.

Part 5 Non-European regional instruments for the protection of human rights.